Author name: Adrian Smith

19th (Training) Squadron, Royal Flying Corps Bernard Robert Hadow Carter was the third son born to the Rector of Slimbridge, Reverend James Octavius Holderness Carter and his wife Beatrice Helena (née Stone). He was born on 21 October 1898 at Headington near Oxford, where his father was conducting his ministry. By the time of the […]

3rd Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment Albert Thomas Noah Carter was born in Gloucester in 1888. He was the son of Sidney and Agnes Carter, his father being a police sergeant. He had a sister, born about 1892. According to the Census taken in 1901, the family lived at Old Sodbury, near Chipping Sodbury. The Gloucestershire Journal

1st Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Henry James Carpenter was born at Tredworth, Gloucester in the first half of 1883. The parents were James Carpenter (1855-1922), a farm labourer and his wife Eliza (née Ackley: born 1853). They had had seven children, of whom six were living at the time of the 1911 census. Henry was the

Royal Navy – HMS Canada John St Erme Cardew was born on 3 December 1891 in Cheltenham to George Arthur Cardew MRCS and Alice Sophia Mary Cardew (née Barrett). He was educated privately and at the Royal Naval College, Osborne House, Isle of Wight. His siblings were Arthur Barrett (1888-1974) and Dorothy Mary (1893-1979). His

2/4th Battalion, Norfolk Regiment Leonard Thomas Campin (his headstone indicates he was probably known as Willie) was born in 1884 in Stow-on-the-Wold. He was the son of John Edward and his wife Margaret Ellen (née Luker), who lived at Sheep Street, Stow-on-the-Wold. John Edward was a house painter. The 1901 Census indicates that the couple

13th Battalion, Cheshire Regiment James Campbell is the only soldier who I’ve researched who has no historic connection with thecounty of Gloucestershire. He is buried at Stroud Old Cemetery. James appears on the roll of Ireland’s Memorial Records stating that he was born in Fintona, County Tyrone, Ireland. The only record on Ancestry is inclusion

3/6th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Reginald Percy James Cambridge was born in Gloucester in the first half of 1895 and it is known he was baptised on 11 April 1915. He was the son of Thomas Lane Cambridge, a plumber, glazier and carpenter and his wife Sarah (née Chappel), who lived at Walton House, Southgate Street,Gloucester.

54th Battalion, Australian Infantry Albert Ross Callaghan was born in Sydney, New South Wales (NSW) in 1887. When he attested he was living in the Surry Hills locality of Sydney and his occupation was a tailor. He gave his next of kin as his mother, Emily Jane Callaghan of Victoria Street, Kogarah, NSW. His attestation,

Army Cyclist Corps Albert Thomas Blunt was born on 31 July 1892, one of eleven children born to Thomas and Mary Ann Blunt, who lived in the Kingsholm district of Gloucester. Nine of these children were surviving at the time of the 1911 Census. Thomas Blunt died in late 1898, aged 47 and it appears

Royal Engineers John Albert Blossett was born at Hereford in 1877, the son of James and Emma Blossett. Prior to joining the Army his trade was a chef. On 30 March 1902 he married Martha Jane Miles at St Martin’s Church, Hereford. She was five years younger than him and on 29 May 1902 she

Depot Battalion, Queen’s Own (Royal West Kent Regiment) Francis George Blockley was born in the final months of 1899, the son of Thomas Blockley and his wife Emily (née Moulds). According to the 1911 Census Thomas was a jobbing gardener and the couple had five children, two of whom had died by the time of